Vii. Supervision of Rural Schools for Negroes

Introduction

“…Since their beginning, NSSE yearbooks, often reflecting their societal context, have captured and presented prevailing perspectives on racial and ethnic issues in education. Although rarely confronting race and ethnicity directly, when addressed during NSSE's first decades, the problems of poor educational outcomes of minority students generally reflected a deficit perspective with regard to minority students' rights and academic abilities, an all too common perspective that persists even today (see Davis, 1913;Hollingworth, 1940;Peterson, 1928).…”